Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!